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Melbourne Dreaming

A guide to important places of the past and present

Meyer Eidelson

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Within its busy urban presence, Melbourne has a rich and complex Aboriginal heritage. Amongst the city landscape lie layers of a turbulent history and an ongoing vibrant culture. But you need to kn...

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Within its busy urban presence, Melbourne has a rich and complex Aboriginal heritage. Amongst the city landscape lie layers of a turbulent history and an ongoing vibrant culture. But you need to know where to look.

Melbourne Dreaming allows you to take guided tours, or to plan your own self-guided walk, from 30 minutes to a whole day.

The first edition of Melbourne Dreaming established itself as an informative and culturally appropriate guidebook. This new edition has been updated with new sites and illustrations. While it's an authoritative guidebook with clear maps, travelling instructions and stories and images of significant people and events, it's also an alternative social history, told through precincts of significance to the city's Aboriginal people.

The precincts include both physical and cultural sites. With their accompanying stories and photographs, they evoke an ancient past and a continuing present.

Production Details
  • Paperback
  • 240mm x 170mm x 12mm
  • 256pp
  • Released September 2014
  • ISBN 9781922059710
Contents

Dedication
About the author
About this book
Acknowledgments
Acknowledgments (1997 edition)
Introduction
Precincts
City centre & surrounds, sites 1–11
East, sites 12–17
Inner north, sites 18–22
Outer north, site 23
West, sites 24–28
South, sites 29–32
Mornington Peninsula, sites 33–36
List of organisations
Glossary
Reference list
Index

About The Author

Meyer Eidelson lives in Melbourne. He is the author of seventeen books and documentaries. These include guide books, local history, children's books and biography. Meyer is also the owner of a walking tour company exploring the history, environment and Indigenous landscapes of Melbourne.  He is a member of several historical societies and active in a range of projects promoting natural and built heritage. He is also the Melbourne street artist known as 'Minime.' 

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Kerrie

This book is fascinating! Thank you so much for educating me on places/objects I didn’t even know about.

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Kim
Melbourne Dreaming

Excellent service. Look fwd to reading book and learn new things. Thank you AIATSIS.

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Anne

This book was purchased to gift a family member. When the parcel arrived and I went to wrap it, my neighbour and I had a look at the book and were both so impressed we thought we would also like a copy. The recipient was most pleased to receive this book.

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Kerrie

This book is fascinating! Thank you so much for educating me on places/objects I didn’t even know about.

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Kim
Melbourne Dreaming

Excellent service. Look fwd to reading book and learn new things. Thank you AIATSIS.

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Anne

This book was purchased to gift a family member. When the parcel arrived and I went to wrap it, my neighbour and I had a look at the book and were both so impressed we thought we would also like a copy. The recipient was most pleased to receive this book.

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